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rev up

/rɛv ʌp/

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verb

/rɛv ʌp/B2formal
  • ruФразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения увеличения скорости двигателя или, в более общем смысле, для повышения энергии, активности или интенсивности.

A phrasal verb used to indicate increasing the speed of an engine, or more generally, to increase energy, activity, or intensity.

uncountable · transitive and intransitive · phrasal, separable

  1. Increase engine speedinformal

    To increase the speed of an engine, especially before driving or racing.

    ruУвеличить обороты

    • He revved up the engine before the race started.
    • The driver revved up the car at the traffic light.
    • You can hear the motorcycles revving up in the distance.

    Synonymsaccelerategunopen upracerev

  2. Increase energy or activityinformal

    To make something more active, exciting, or intense.

    ruАктивизировать

    • The coach revved up the team with a motivational speech.
    • We need to rev up our marketing efforts for the new product.
    • The music revved up the crowd before the concert.

    Synonymsboostenergizegalvanizeintensifyinvigorateliven uppep upstimulate

    Antonymscalmcooldiminishquietsubdue

Forms
  • revved up past participle
  • revved up past simple
  • revving up present participle
  • revs up third person singular

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Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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